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thank you, god bless you, and may god bless the united states of america. (crowd cheering) (crowd chanting): yes we can! >> mitt romney, fresh from running the winter olympics... >> narrator: just three weeks after the olympics ended in march of 2002... >> ... announced that he's running for the gop nomination for governor. >> narrator: ... mitt romney was back in massachusetts. >> republicans said romney emerged as a kind of shining knight... >> lest there be any doubt, i'm in. the bumper stickers have been printed, the web site is going up tomorrow morning, the campaign papers are filed today. >> narrator: it had been 40 years since his dad had run for governor. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> it sort of mirrored what his dad had done. his dad had become a successful executive in american business and then served in public service as governor. so there was definitely a parallel there. >> narrator: the romney playbook's first step: create a plan. >> it was clear that to be successful in massachusetts, you had to run as a socially liberal, fiscall
thank you, god bless you, and may god bless the united states of america. (crowd cheering) (crowd chanting): yes we can! >> mitt romney, fresh from running the winter olympics... >> narrator: just three weeks after the olympics ended in march of 2002... >> ... announced that he's running for the gop nomination for governor. >> narrator: ... mitt romney was back in massachusetts. >> republicans said romney emerged as a kind of shining knight... >> lest there...
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supreme court over citizens united. remember, citizens allowed outside groups to spend unlimited amounts of money independent of candidates. the court said outside spending does not corrupt. bullock disagreed. >> independent expenditures would corrupt, and we certainly have a history... i mean the whole reason why the corrupt practices act was passed by citizens initiative in 1912en was because of corporate corruption. >> ryssdal: some of the montana justices were skeptical. >> on what legal basis can we simply ignore citizens united on the premise that montana got it right and the supreme court got it wrong? thank you. we'll take this matter under advisement. >> this is the ten o'clock news on q2. >> ryssdal: what happened next was kind of a surprise. >> the montana supreme court is upholding a 1912 law stating corporations cannot spend money to influence elections. >> ryssdal: bullock had beaten back wtp. he won the case. which wasn't supposed to happen. states aren't supposed to contradict the u.s. supreme court. >>
supreme court over citizens united. remember, citizens allowed outside groups to spend unlimited amounts of money independent of candidates. the court said outside spending does not corrupt. bullock disagreed. >> independent expenditures would corrupt, and we certainly have a history... i mean the whole reason why the corrupt practices act was passed by citizens initiative in 1912en was because of corporate corruption. >> ryssdal: some of the montana justices were skeptical....
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his unit was being attacked by a tank. abu mohammed sent 300 bullets and two rocket-propelled grenades-- half of all that he had. abu mohammed then told us about the government's strategy. >> (translated): its strategy is artillery bombardment, the tanks advance, then plant snipers before pulling the tanks back. the snipers' role is to clear the area in front, and then next day, the tanks move forward beyond the snipers. and then the snipers advance again. >> narrator: suddenly, outside headquarters, there was a new threat. >> they say the tank is trying to advance. the guys just scrambled some force and they came around the corner here and they're trying to stop it. this is the front line now. the guys are trying to protect this corner of the street in the battle of aleppo. (gunfire) >> narrator: a few streets away, a garden had become a frontline cemetery. this is where the next casualities would be buried. (gunfire) close by, a deadly fight had ended. abu mohammed's fighters had just killed two snipers. >> narrator: the
his unit was being attacked by a tank. abu mohammed sent 300 bullets and two rocket-propelled grenades-- half of all that he had. abu mohammed then told us about the government's strategy. >> (translated): its strategy is artillery bombardment, the tanks advance, then plant snipers before pulling the tanks back. the snipers' role is to clear the area in front, and then next day, the tanks move forward beyond the snipers. and then the snipers advance again. >> narrator: suddenly,...
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. >> all units at the scene of the plane crash and house fire switch to channel two. all units to channel two. >> we drove out to the crash site. it seemed like it took forever. about that time the state trooper, policemen in charge on the scene, came on the radio and just said that, you know, this continental plane had crashed into a house on long street and at this time there appeared there were no survivors. so at that... you know, at that point, you're pretty much... you know it was real. >> o'brien: kevin kuwik's girlfriend, lorin maurer, was a passenger on flight 3407. >> the phone rings and it's kevin. and he just said, you know, "scott, i got bad news." and he just broke it to us. he says, you know, lauren was on this plane and it went down, and there are no survivors. >> o'brien: the crash killed 49 onboard and one on the ground. over the next several days, investigators from the national transportation safety board, or ntsb, scoured the site and briefed family members on their findings. >> i could sense in the briefing a certain amount of anger. you know, th
. >> all units at the scene of the plane crash and house fire switch to channel two. all units to channel two. >> we drove out to the crash site. it seemed like it took forever. about that time the state trooper, policemen in charge on the scene, came on the radio and just said that, you know, this continental plane had crashed into a house on long street and at this time there appeared there were no survivors. so at that... you know, at that point, you're pretty much... you know it...
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and that's exactly what happened in the united states congress. >> hockenberry: beyond washington, in wave after wave, the skeptic tactic of fighting scientific warnings with doubt and delay was finding success. tennessee passed a law allowing the views of climate change skeptics to be taught in schools. a virginia state legislator cut the words "sea level rise" from an official request to study coastal communities, calling it a left-wing term. here in north carolina, a warning from scientists on sea level rise would cause politicians to try and legislate climate change out of existence. >> they're here to try to protect these houses. >> hockenberry: in 2010, 19 scientists on a state commission warned of a possible sea level rise by the end of the century. >> here you get an idea of the nature of these dunes. >> hockenberry: geologist stanley riggs was one of the scientists. >> what we were asked to do is to develop... what is the history of sea level rise and what can north carolina expect 25 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now. >> hockenberry: the report said
and that's exactly what happened in the united states congress. >> hockenberry: beyond washington, in wave after wave, the skeptic tactic of fighting scientific warnings with doubt and delay was finding success. tennessee passed a law allowing the views of climate change skeptics to be taught in schools. a virginia state legislator cut the words "sea level rise" from an official request to study coastal communities, calling it a left-wing term. here in north carolina, a warning...
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the two best marketing words in the united states are "free" and "all you can eat." people love that. so they love free checking, and it brought in a lot of customers that didn't have a checking account before. >> bergman: so why not offer them free checking... >> right. >> bergman: ...and pick up the money... >> other ways. >> bergman: the concept of paying overdrafts-- loaning customers money when their accounts are empty-- quickly caught on at banks across america because it was so profitable. and those profits exploded when the banks began to attach debit cards to those free checking accounts, producing billions of dollars in revenue. they don't charge a fee to give you a debit card? >> they're free until you make a mistake, and then you pay dearly. >> it's just easy when you have a debit card to use it, but one month i didn't get the deposit from my tenant, and i didn't realize it. i bought a small pizza for $7 and ended up getting charged a $33 fee. so it ended up being a $40 pizza. >> bergman: the bank covered the $7 dollar pizza purchase even though her accou
the two best marketing words in the united states are "free" and "all you can eat." people love that. so they love free checking, and it brought in a lot of customers that didn't have a checking account before. >> bergman: so why not offer them free checking... >> right. >> bergman: ...and pick up the money... >> other ways. >> bergman: the concept of paying overdrafts-- loaning customers money when their accounts are empty-- quickly caught on...
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. >> currently her mother's not even in the united states right now. they were in a shelter not that long ago, then they were evicted, so she's having to go between relatives. >> narrator: and their assigned counselor organizes an intervention. >> i took her home one day, and it's like a... it's a double commute. it's a bus to a train... it's on the other side of the world, you can say. >> i can't tell you how much i worry every time she leaves this building. >> when she leaves this building, you know, she's on her own. >> let her know that we're going to support her, and keep us posted on what she needs. our students face challenges sometimes that young children shouldn't have to face. and they need that support of the adult to help them through it. >> it's all going to work out. >> narrator: catherine miller was omarina's homeroom teacher. >> miller: so once omarina was identified, it was imperative on my part as a homeroom teacher in consultation with the guidance counselor and administration to discuss why she was coming in late so many times. >> t
. >> currently her mother's not even in the united states right now. they were in a shelter not that long ago, then they were evicted, so she's having to go between relatives. >> narrator: and their assigned counselor organizes an intervention. >> i took her home one day, and it's like a... it's a double commute. it's a bus to a train... it's on the other side of the world, you can say. >> i can't tell you how much i worry every time she leaves this building. >>...
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. >> what unites both of these characters is this sense that there was a destiny that they had. >> "the choice 2012," a frontline exclusive. >> frontline continues online. find out what happens next for marcus. >> i wanna just go to college, period. >> learn more about how the apollo program got started, and read more on houston's last-chance schools. follow up on texas's quick fix degree programs. find out the real economic value of a high school diploma. plus, watch the film online and follfrontline on facebook and twitter, or tell us what you think at pbs.org/frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by
. >> what unites both of these characters is this sense that there was a destiny that they had. >> "the choice 2012," a frontline exclusive. >> frontline continues online. find out what happens next for marcus. >> i wanna just go to college, period. >> learn more about how the apollo program got started, and read more on houston's last-chance schools. follow up on texas's quick fix degree programs. find out the real economic value of a high school...